Late last week the White House released a blog (I assume in response to my blog post) addressing the many waivers it has issued in the few months since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was passed.
In the blog post, the White House says that Health and Human Services may “issue temporary waivers from the annual limit provision of the law if it would disrupt access to existing insurance arrangements or adversely affect premiums, causing people to lose coverage.” However, this is exactly what entire states have been requesting from day one. If this is the honest criteria, then we can only assume many more waivers are coming.
The blog also claims that there is “confusion and deliberate obfuscation” being created by enemies who want to make PPACA look bad…. As though passing a vaguely worded 2700 page bill that hadn’t been read didn’t confuse from the beginning.
The White House further asserts that accusations from major news sources of preferential treatment are false. However, it doesn’t appear that this is true if one investigates which companies invested in the Obama campaign and which companies are now receiving waivers.
Although I like to think I have enough power to elicit a White House response, I believe this is actually just another blanket statement attempt to deflect from the actual chaos and trickery happening within Health and Human Services in relation to PPACA.
